[Bioc-devel] knowing what is changed/new in release patches
A package may choose to provide a NEWS file which you should be able to access using news(package = "IRanges") (you can also ask for news added after a given version number, the query above lists the entire file). It is optional to include and it is optional how detailed it is, but this is intended to be a readable summary of changes. For this reason, I very strongly suggests that all packages include such a file. Unfortunately, it is easy to forget to update. Aside from this, svn log is your only friend. Kasper
On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Cook, Malcolm <MEC at stowers.org> wrote:
Is there a generic way to learn what is changed or new in a "released" package since its release?
For instance, IRanges was released as 1.16.0 but is now at 1.16.4.
I'd like to know what was changed in this released version.
I do already know that I can monitor changes to devel with either
http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/svnlog/ or its RSS feed.
And I do.
And this is very useful.
However, I don't know how to do this to the release version (i.e. to learn what changes to devel were deemed sufficiently important to merit a patch release to devel), other than check out the svn and use diff, which I don't want to have to do (at least for now).
Am I missing something?
Any pointers?
Thanks!
Malcolm Cook
Computational Biology - Stowers Institute for Medical Research
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